Debra Eschmeyer remembers working in her family's garden as a little girl, hoeing weeds and eating ripe tomatoes and peas off the vine. The hoeing was hard work, she said, but the delicious, homegrown vegetables the work yielded . . .

ST. HENRY - Six elementary students approached the school board Monday night in a quest to build a flower garden on school property.
The St. Henry fourth-grade students and their teacher, Sharon Chatwood, sought permission to b . . .

Two resident pairs of bald eagles nesting on Grand Lake have hatched an undetermined number of young, reported volunteer eagle watcher Jill Bowers of St. Marys on Monday.
Bowers has recorded information on Grand Lake's eagles f . . .

Former Maria Stein resident, Luella B. Gagel, 93, died at 5:20 p.m. April 12, 2009, at Otterbein St. Marys Retirement Community.
She was born June 19, 1915, in Burkettsville to William and Thecla Nau Hemmelgarn. On Feb. 9, 1946 . . .

Haidyn Nicole Laux, was stillborn April 10, 2009, at Wood County Hospital.
She was born April 10, 2009, to Brad A. and Brandy N. Hansen Laux, who survive in Bowling Green.
Other survivors are grandparents, Ted and Colleen Han . . .

Former St. Marys resident, Stacy L. Moor, 38, Rochester, N.Y., died April 11, 2009, from complications of an accident.
She was born Feb. 28, 1971, in Lima to Steve and Cheryl Nichols Moor, St. Marys.
On Oct. 28., 1999, she ma . . .

Richard A. Schumm, 69, of Van Wert, died at 11:53 a.m. April 12, 2009, at Van Wert County Hospital.
He was born Feb. 23, 1940, in Van Wert to Arthur A. and Erna W. Klenk Schumm. On March 1, 1958, he married Ann Feeney, who surv . . .